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Russell Clay always served below deck during engagements with the enemy [Annotator's Note: he was a crewman aboard the...
After being liberated in Warnach, Belgium for the second time, Emile Engles' father went to look at their family home....
Joseph Richard feels that the war means more now to the younger generation than it did after he left it. He meets kids...
Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...
Joseph Mittelsdorf thought the Marine Corps was intense. They taught everyone learn how to follow orders. The training...
Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...
Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...
Bill Toledo was sent to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp. He was able to keep up with...
Mac Glenn Morris flew for the first time in the backseat of a Stearman [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman Model 75...
Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson enlisted in the Navy and was sent to a ship in the Hudson River to train on. He was supposed...
William “Bill” Knapp volunteered for the US Navy when he was 17 years old. His parents consented to his enlistment....
[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...
Victor Befera learned of and passed the V-12 [Annotator's Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to 1946]...
James Buckley went back to his normal work [Annotator's Note: after running and not getting a political seat in New...
Roy Joseph Moss took a long train ride to Little Rock, Arkansas [Annotator's Note: Camp Robinson] where he received his...
Seymour Reitman's entire senior geometry class enlisted while they were still in high school. When he turned 18 years...
Richard Graff did not mind being drafted because he knew he was going to have to fight in the war. He thinks his ethic...
Robert Bassemir was drafted in the spring of 1943. He was sent to Long Island [Annotator's Note: Long Island, New York...
Thomas Kingsley's departure for military training was an emotional family event. He had volunteered for the Army...
When Ernest Cowell was in high school, his friends started being drafted. One boy was a tanker [Annotator's Note: part...
Bruno S. Rinas discussed joining the service with a younger brother. He joined the military in 1940 at Fort Snelling [...
Richard Gibian was born in Montgomery, Alabama in October 1919. The Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...
Joseph Medicine Crow somehow enjoyed war. This is despite some opinions that war is terrible. War allowed him to commit...
James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...
Margaret Brewer Henry is from Atlanta, Georgia. She double majored in Spanish and Journalism when she was in college....
The war was on and all of the men were being drafted. After the first year, women were allowed to join the military, so...
Lawrence Yatsu believes that World War 2 should be studied because it is history. He feels it is unfair that Germans...
Walter Broll benefited by the war because it made him an alert man instead of the 18 year old minor he was when he...
Alexander Jefferson worked in the post office after school when he returned home from war. Jefferson discovered that...
When James Shelton Scales was promoted to captain and given his own company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion...
John Witmeyer harbored an intense anger toward German soldiers. He punched German prisoners in the face, ran bayonets...
Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group in Europe]...
Peter Harry has bad dreams about the war. He goes to meetings and they talk about the Battle of the Bulge and that...
Frank Stewart shows the interviewer a photograph that was taken at the naval hospital in San Diego. Bob Day had also...
German aircraft shot at James Sandoz's battery [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 554th AAA (AW) Battalion, 29th Infantry...
Flying to Japan was not easy because so much of China was under Japanese control. All of the missions Howard Anderson...

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